TAPS is a survivor-run group that helps victims of sex trafficking to break free. You can reach us at https://www.facebook.com/TraffickingandProstitutionServicesOnline/ We also help family members and other loves ones to "retrieve" someone they feel is either trapped into sex work. If you are a parent - you can get help at www.swanfellowship.webs.com. This is the author's personal opinion and since written in the USA is protected under rights of free speech.

I'm
sure an educated man such as yourself has probably heard of the poem
popularized by John Godfrey Saxe entitled “The Blind Men & the
Elephant”. This poem if you remember was based on a story that's
been repeated in many cultures about the blind men called upon to
describe an elephant. However, each one of them was feeling a
different part of the animal – thus one was feeling the tail vs.
the other feeling the tusk. While each was “correct” at the part
they were describing - they were still “disagreeing” with each
other about what it was simply because of having a different
perspective.

I'm
writing to you today because I believe we may be looking at the same
“animal” from “different perspectives” called the “sex
industry”. Neither one of us “right” or “wrong” but
certainly it would provide a better description of the beast if we
were communicating with each other. I'm writing you this long letter
because I'd like to know I've at least attempted to open up a
dialogue about this “elephant” even though my previous attempts
to have us engage in a dialogue with each other have been rebuffed.
I assure you while I'm being treated in this manner, it's not exactly
encouraging our other members to try and speak to you openly either.
Remember, our members are very real, just most of them choosing to
remain “anonymous”.I am a “survivor” also of many different
types of sex trafficking – so whatever you think of me a survivor I
am. Meaning how others see you treat me – is how they perceive you
to treat “survivors” when they're not being of direct use to you
when you're trying to get a grant approved or an agenda pushed
through.

So
I've not spoken to you directly about my arrest in 1984 but you can
read it with the clips I've posted at www.hightechmadam.com
Contrary to what the story appears to be about - this warehouse I
was arrested in connection with was not a “brothel” I was
operating. As a matter of fact, at the time of my arrest I had
completely “retired” out of the sex industry. After buying my
way out of a generational family of people involved in prostitution
who were related to Richard Pryor's family (who he's been open about
his mother working in his grandmother's brothel so I'm not violating
a confidence here) who had lured me into the sex industry, then
“turned me out” and pimped me using fear as their tool for a few
years - word soon spread on the “streets” I was now an
“independent” prostitute. This is actually when the real
problems started for me.

With
this “family” no longer acting as “protection” for me, I was
approached first by LAPD officers who were running an escort service
known as “Talk of the Town” back then (they were later arrested
but claimed it was an “undercover operation” no one knew about so
nothing was done to them). They doubled as a casting and modeling
agency so prostitutes could literally be written into the budgets of
films and modeling projects and thus paid for using credit cards or
company checks. Paramount Studios had this scandal break about just
this sort of practice in the 1990's. Their escorts were supplied to
the “Hollywood elite”. The clients, or “johns” were assured
none of “their” escorts would have a disease, would steal from
anyone, nor would anything which transpired leak to the press. They
were assured these women were “under the control and management”
of LAPD” and thus their discretion with the press, and wives, was
guaranteed.

To
further prove their point, any actor caught picking up an
“independent” such as when Eddie Murphy picked up Devine Brown
off the streets was soon blasted all over the media. News of this
sort was used to make sure other “johns” knew if they didn't want
to wind up a public laughing stock – they needed to stick with
using “Talk of the Town” to supply their needs. To recruit women
to work for them, basically anyone not working with them was
arrested. Shortly after I initially refused to work for them I was
arrested for prostitution myself to prove their point they could give
me a record if they wanted to. So I saw firsthand back then how the
corrupt police work in conjunction with the media to “advertise”
their “black market” services in the way it's done when you're
talking about an illegal service such as illegal prostitution. When
one can't take out an ad in the yellow pages – well then one gets a
little creative in spreading the word.

Looking
back, you'll notice it was only when actors such as Eddie Murphy,
Hugh Grant, or Danny Bonaduce picked up “street” prostitutes were
these stories blasted all over the press. These was a noticeable
absence of such stories coming out of the services ran by Alex Adams,
better known as the Beverly Hills Madam, who was not only working
with these LAPD, but also the FBI as an “informant” back then.
This was all done to encourage men of power and prestige to frequent
only “the right” services or “else”.

These
officers of course insisted upon sex for free upon demand in exchange
for their “protection” as well as access to these “well paying
clients”. Which any way you slice it - it's a form of rape.
There's no point in even saying “no” to this where it's the word
of a “whore” over a Beverly Hills police officer. Especially
when they can shoot you so easily as men like Paul Tanaka have done.
I ask you if even in cases like the Rodney King case where there's
been horrible abuse, even the murder of someone wrongfully, by the
police – what's done to them? For that matter, what's been done in
the Sandra Bland case? In situations like this, you view giving them
sex free is better than winding up dead. It's just “understood”.

My
relationship with them soon had me seeing politicians, celebrities,
and making all kinds of business deals above and beyond that of just
prostitution. This was an organized criminal operation. These cops
were literally taking drugs off drug dealers, then giving them to us
to carry on their drug deals. That way if anyone got stopped or
arrested it would be one of “us” charged for it - not one of
them. Remember, this was a time before Google, cell phones,
internet, etc. existed. I certainly had no way of taping any of
these threats back then. It also meant “madams” did more than
just send out escorts back then. If you wanted to know where or how
to get just about anything on the “streets”– the “madams”
of that day was your source.

Through
these cops I found myself, under threat of false arrest or even worse
(keep in mind prostitutes were winding up dead in alleys all over LA
then and this was attributed to the many serial killers operating
then with no one investigating these cases at all. Even mothers of
dead prostitutes in the streets were going completely unresponded to
by LAPD when the body count started seriously mounting.), being asked
to arrange all kinds of deals. I soon found myself being asked to
arrange anything from connecting up a money counterfeiter to a guy
who made unmarked guns in his garage as a madam. Our escorts were
also used to pump some “johns” for “inside information”
which was then relayed back to these same cops.

One
of these requests included recruiting women to audition for the hit
show back then “The Dating Game”. At first, we were told it
would be “good exposure” for a working girl to “be on TV”.
As an enticement, we were then assured “our girls” would be set
up to win “lavish vacations”. However, we started noticing some
of these locations weren't exactly in “tourist” spots. Then some
of them weren't coming back. Mind you this was before Chuck Barris
had confessed about being a CIA operative in his book “Confessions
of a Dangerous Mind”. Through Chuck, we started being asked to do
stranger and stranger things.

Until I was then introduced to
another man identifying himself to be a CIA agent. This man asked
for my “help” in all sorts of drug deals which I later learned
had been called “Iran Contra”. You know what this was I'm sure –
the CIA bringing cocaine into this country to raise “off the books”
cash to buy guns for the Contra's. Back then however all this young
woman in her 20's knew was that I was seeing crates of cocaine being
unloaded off planes and boats, then processed by south central gang
members (also being threatened with arrest if they didn't cooperate),
with my “girls” being asked to transport the drug from these
crack houses to Bel Air homes. Places where a “Blood” or a
“Crypt” would stick out like a sore thumb but we blended in just
fine. So us prostitutes and madams were the glue between the gangs
and Bel Air.

Once
I was in deep – I was then asked to supply them with women “who
had no family”. When I asked why, I was shown an operation
involved diplomat's planes taking these women out of the country
never to be seen or heard from again. To prove this was not a joke
– I watched as women I knew were loaded onto one of these planes
like cattle and there was nothing I could do to stop that plane from
taking off.

This
is when I set my foot down and decided it was time for me to get the
hell out of this whole thing. Especially before I was one of the
women loaded onto that plane. Even more so when I learned there
wasn't even a law about it on the books. If you've seen the first
ten minutes of “Enter the Dragon” with Bruce Lee dated 1973 –
the whole opening is on just how American women were being trafficked
and there wasn't one law on the books to do a damn thing to stop it.
After having the head of the Hillside Strangler Task Force throw me
and a woman they'd stabbed 51 times out of their office claiming they
couldn't even “get a warrant based on the world of a whore” -
this is when I realized there was no safety for us anywhere while we
were clearly being hunted like game.

I
moved, changed my number, got some phony ID, and did just that –
got the hell out of all of this. Something I was able to do back
prior to 1984 in a way which would be impossible to do today between
technology and the Patriot Act I need to add. But other women wanted
my help to get “out of there” also once they saw I'd gotten out
alive. I had six months left on my lease at this warehouse in Van
Nuys I had once used as an adult theater, so I converted it into what
I later learned was the first safe house for adult sex trafficking
victims anywhere in the USA.

One
night, the police literally did try and storm the place to retrieve
two women I'd stashed there. This is when they learned our security
was holding but for that reason then became the target that I did.
These men weren't used to losing anyone. They were used to places
like shelters either refusing to accept us, or if they did take us,
it was some shelter who they could flash their badge, say they wanted
to “ask us a few questions” and then this person was never heard
from again.

NO
ONE followed up when we disappeared back then – especially if we
were over 18 years of age. Which back then the people I was involved
with pretty much stuck to adults for that reason – you couldn't
even file a missing persons report for 24 hours when one of us went
missing. Then if we did go missing – we were written off as “just
a whore”. I never saw a search team organized for one of us back
then ever.

I
later learned 1984 was when a lot of us “madams” balked at the
requests given to us by the CIA. If you look back in your history
books, you'll see I wasn't the only one arrested that year, nor was
it about the Olympics either. Sure I was arrested that year, as was
Cheri Woods and Alex Adams in California, but Sydney Biddle Barrows
was also arrested in New York this same year. When I later
questioned each of them about their arrest – I was told the same
story by each. They each also had been asked to supply “women with
no family” to be sold like cattle overseas and had refused. Even
madams believe it or not have their limits you see. We “earned”
our money yes illegally. But we had balked at the idea of being
involved in the sale of another human being which might even have
meant their death for all we knew.

Like
each of them also that year, I was “framed” for my arrest. I had
a young woman call me up for help who I didn't know had been sent to
me by police offering to drop her probation if she set me up. She'd
told me her pimp had broken her arm and nose, as well as blacked both
of her eyes and she asked me if I would help her get away from him.
I put her up in the warehouse I'd converted into a safe house to rest
and heal. I also told her I had cut off all my phones, stopped
running my ads, and was no longer “in the game”. The next thing
I know I'm being arrested on “pimping” charges supposedly of her.

Of
course there wasn't a shred of evidence against me because I wasn't
“pimping” her or anyone. So to make things stick they even
arrested my mother charging her with pimping me. To ensure the press
printed “their” story of what was going down and not mine – I
had my bail jacked up to over $50,000 with no 10 % taken. This
prevented any reporter from talking to me as I had been sent to the
main jail. While I was being held – the police confiscated all of
my money and belongings as well as guaranteed I wouldn't be able to
go out and get any “job” anywhere outside of the sex industry.
The point was to “break” me financially, as well as cut me off
from my support, so that I'd come back “to the streets” and do
what they wanted me to do under their promise they'd drop the case.
This experience also taught me things aren't always as they appear to
be when stories are being manufactured by “sex traffickers”. So
I've learned how to tell from my own experiences when someone is also
being railroaded by others who have an agenda.

I'm
telling you all of this for a reason. If you remember last year when
the show “8 Minutes” was airing on A&E – you had released a
statement you had not given Kevin Brown, not the producers of the
show, permission to air your hotline in connection with it. If he
was running a “legit” rescue, and was what he was pretending to
be on that show, then he would have clearly obtained your consent to
use, and be using, your hotline number as I even am. I have a
listing on your site. But I'm actually running a program. So one
has to ask then what was the purpose behind a show I read had cost
over $1,000,000 just to produce the pilot alone in that series. For
a “fake” rescue? I mean what's up here? Plus what does “8
Minutes” have to do with the recent arrest of Carl Ferrer, CEO of
Backpage?

You
have to realize your hotline by nature of what it does is going to
get a different set of calls than our hotline receives. You limit
your calls to that of being from the victims themselves who
self-identify as “victims of sex trafficking”. That and
“other's” who report to you of suspected “sex trafficking”.
So from what I know about your hotline – you only, and solely, take
calls from someone who calls you up themselves about themselves who
says to you “I'm being trafficked and I want out?” In other
words, that's your end of the elephant you're going to be seeing.

However,
your advertising for those to call you who “suspect sex
trafficking” or “tip” calls bear honestly more resemblance to
that of an illegal prostitute, or even someone who is being “pimped”
instead of someone who I would classify as a “sex trafficking”
victim. Mind you when I started our hotline in 1987 after I got my
case from this 1984 arrest cleaned out of the way, and established
the men who had been involved in my situation were gone out of the
way, we couldn't afford to make any distinction to turn anyone away
because we were the only hotline out there for adults to call for
help. So we've always encouraged anyone who for any reason wanted
help to leave any part of the sex industry for any reason to call us.
This has included the “independent” sex worker, those who were
being “pimped” and those who were trying to escape a sex
trafficking operation. Meaning we've been getting calls from all
factions from 1987 on.

I
also invite you to be aware of who you would refer people to in both
Texas where the show was filmed, as well as California where Kevin
Brown is from, in light of what you now know about with respect to
Joohon David Lee, Celeste Guap, Chief Lee Baca, the OC and San Diego
prosecutors' office scandal, and other things which came to light
after the show aired in May of 2015, which were happening during, and
before, it's filming. In other words, you are aware anyone calling
in the LA area for example back then would have most likely have been
referred back to either Joohon David Lee, or someone who knew him.
Since he was with Homeland Security, ICE and the sex trafficking task
forces in both California and Nevada – it's pretty much a given he
would have been notified of such a call just as he was when I
complained to LAX about his very operation. Even possibly now as the
man who “bribed” him hasn't been arrested yet.

I say
that you're going to get a different type of call then we do most of
the time because in our experience most sex trafficking victims fall
into two categories. Either that of being in denial about being a
“victim” for one reason or another which may include being
brainwashed into not realizing they're being forced or controlled
against their will, or those who may be like I was back in my day. I
say that because I had a very sharp prosecutor on my case. He knew I
was being railroaded and he BEGGED me to “come clean” and tell
him the “truth” about what in the hell was going on with me. So
I mean those like me who are well aware they're being “trafficked”,
but who are too afraid to speak up to the authorities because of
fear.

In
my case I refused to tell this prosecutor anything about what I knew
back then because I had seen what these people could do. I'd seen
their power to kill people even in jail and also knew they were
connected to the highest levels of government. That once the
domino's started falling if I “talked” - that some man in a suit
and a briefcase would show up saying the words “national security”
and my defense would be shut down on the spot. IF I even made it
alive that far.

I
also wasn't stupid. I knew that if I started talking about things
like “Chuck Barris is working for the CIA” then all I'd be doing
is qualifying myself to be carted off to the nut ward. Remember, I'd
just witnessed Linda Lovelace trying emphatically to convince America
she'd been forced to film “Deep Throat” by a gun pointed at her
from off camera while no one stepped up to help her because this was
a mob financed film, i.e., she was a victim of what we now call “sex
trafficking” just a few years earlier in 1980. If no one believed
her – then why would I think they'd believe me?

I'd
seen that despite the bruises clearly visible on her in the film, I
had witnessed our legal system powerless to do a thing. There wasn't
even a law on the books to help her. Well meaning law enforcement
tried charging everyone else on the film but her with “obscenity”
as it was the closest thing they could find to try and hold these men
responsible for their crimes. Because they were using Marilyn
Chambers to call Linda a “liar” and write off her accusations as
“petty jealously” - no one was held accountable for the crimes
committed against Linda. I didn't even see Marilyn in a Narcotics
Anonymous meeting admitting Chuck (their pimp) had been drugging her
during the time she was countering Linda's accusations until 1984.
By that time, the world had pretty much believed anyone who spoke
about things like “organized crime” or “forced prostitution”
let alone “white slavery” was “crazy” as they'd painted Linda
out to be. I bring up Marilyn because I believe Maxine Doogan is the
“Marilyn Chambers” of today. Everything about what I went
through in the 1980's in fact I'm watching repeating itself today –
just with different faces and names.

Knowing
men and women coming from situations like Linda and I had been in,
are coming out of fantastic situations that most of the world would
put on the level as they would someone talking about “little green
aliens” because of how “crazy” these things sound, as well that
what is now term “sex trafficking” always involves corrupt law
enforcement on some level, combined with how the media was portraying
my case as well as Linda's (which was connected through Meyer Lansky
back then) – we've always promoted our hotline in such a manner as
to encourage calls from THAT type of victim. Someone who can't call
911 for help for one. As well as maybe they know their story might
sound “crazy”. But mostly also knowing there's not a chance in
hell they'll ever get a conviction against their traffickers for one
reason or another. That reason could be there is not even a law on
the books for what's being done to them yet which is still sadly the
case as with the victims of Joohon David Lee as but one example.
Look at the Cincinnati case or even what those DEA agents were doing
to those Columbian women. Have
they been held accountable?

Which
is what set off the whole house of cards with that show “8
Minutes”. Up until Robin Few's death in 2012, I had a very good
relationship with SWOP, Desiree Alliance, Red Umbrella Foundation,
and basically any group who worked with either “harm reduction”
for sex workers, or unions such as SWEAT. The reason is obvious –
our program isn't one strictly to help sex trafficking victims as
your hotline is. Our program is to help ANYONE who for ANY reason
wants to leave ANY part of the sex industry. We've been, and still
are in some locations, being used for diversion, alternative
sentencing, early release, re-entry and jail programs designed to
help people quit the sex industry. A true “sex trafficking” call
for us accounts for maybe 10 % of the calls we receive overall. The
rest fall into either the “independent” or “pimped” category.

But
I ask you, who else better to help those leaving the industry who are
trafficked, pimped, etc., than another ex-sex worker? Also, who else
is on the “front lines” to identify where people are being
trafficked than someone in the industry? Especially when it's
illegal? Especially when witnesses to sex trafficking know to call
the cops they're incriminating themselves. So when groups like PACE,
HIPS, or SWOP would be doing their outreach prior to 2012, and they
would come across someone saying they wanted help to leave the
industry including those who were being pimped and/or trafficked –
they would call us. They knew the sex industry is a very very small
world and the only way to get these completely out, and keep them
out, was to call upon us. They also know after deaths of people like
Margo Compton, that our legal system, even the so called “rescue”
programs, are still not set up to address helping those who are
trying to leave organized crime which in almost every case again does
involve some form of corruption. If you look at the “safe houses”
now in the USA – I don't know of but one who accepts males or
transgenders.

So
we get different types of calls on our hotline than you would. Thus
we are given a different perspective on things than you might be.
Especially now since Robin's death, this group of “influencers”
have arisen who we believe are working as “recruiters” as well as
“influencers” now within the sex industry. Not at all different
from when large corporations hire an “influencer” and “recruiter”
to make sure their company grows larger while not forming a union.
Anyone who knows me knows I haven't stopped the brothels expansion
because I'm against prostitution – but because I'm against the way
they treat their workers.

I
say that because the legal brothels out of Nevada have tried three
times now to expand their operations outside of those small counties.
Each time they've tried before to do this, my efforts have been
directly responsible for their failure. In fact, the Mob Museum
wouldn't be open today had they won the last round to put a legal
brothel where it now operates, as well as the new Arts District which
is there now too. Since Robin's death, these “influencers” who
include women like Maxine Doogan and Domina Elle have risen up.
They're done this to not only make sure a “union” doesn't form
among sex workers, but to further create a “counter” influence to
scare sex workers off trusting us the way they were prior to Robin's
death. I also want you to note their connection to not only the show
“8 Minutes” but “50 Shades of Grey” and the “Girlfriend
Experience” as well. The videogame industry is not the only one
hiring “online influencers”.

The
Nevada legal brothels have had more problems with me than just these
three campaigns they lost. Big ones I should add. With the first
one in 1988, Joe Conforte had put up a $1,000,000 into a PR firm to
win a proposition to bring legal brothels into California. He had
also paid about that much to a university to do a HIV/AIDS study
which was completely “rigged” in his favor. It was to make it
appear no one at his brothel ever contracted the virus to try and use
the fear then as a marketing tool as well as to push to expand. So
when he lost that year, he lost a lot of money and put a whole other
ball into motion. That
was of us coming to the rescue of the women working within these
legal brothels.

After
taping a Sally Jesse Raphael talk show in 1988, one of the women he'd
brought onto the show came running up to me after taping was done.
She reported she had been drugged, then forced at gunpoint onto a
private plane where she had been “told” to rehearse scripted
lines for the show talking about how “wonderful” working
conditions were there. This woman then begged me to get her out of
there – telling me if she even tried to leave the place on foot
she'd be arrested. I never heard of such a thing, but went ahead and
got her out of there in a staged stunt making it appear an ambulance
took her out of the studio. Once we got her safely into a program up
there which had Brenda Myers-Powell there who I was working with at
the time too, Genesis House, word spread back to Nevada one could
call me for help and get it.

It
turns out she was telling the truth – it literally was against the
law for her to walk out of there on foot. Walking being the
operative word because none of these brothels were in cities where
there was a cab service, nor was there any bus line which would take
one from where the brothels were to any of the major cities where
there was an airport to get out of the state entirely. Without their
money which was held from them – they can't even hire a limo to
come down to pick them up. Considering how the police, and the laws,
in the state of Nevada favor the brothel owners, these women wanted
out of the state entirely. Combine this with the relatively few cops
in these cities, who then made most of their money from Joe, well
these women couldn't turn to the police to get out of there either.
Not when a call to them usually wound up with them being the ones
arrested under these unconstitutional laws barring them from leaving
on foot. A cop also isn't going to drive them to the nearest airport
either – even if they did arrest someone.

After
this first “rescue” in Nevada, I started getting more and more
calls to help these women leave out of there. Being the only program
who would do this, when a woman would go “awol” the brothel
owners knew it was us helping these women. Since the only way I've
known to stop the kind of abuse I'm having these women as young as 16
years old are telling me is going on up there “legally” (or in
ways we can't get them arrested for anyway), we've had an
“unofficial” war going on between us and the legal brothels.
We'd set about to get as many of them shut down as possible for a
while there. A campaign which was also very successful. We had
gotten quite a few of them shut down for a while there. So many it
even hit the news.

That was until Sheldon Adelson decided he
wanted to not only oppose Obama, but also he wanted to expand legal
prostitution through the USA, all while opposing unions of any kind.
This is when he started bank rolling these efforts. For every
brothel we started getting shut down about then, we found Dennis
would then go and buy them out. We really got on their “shit list”
when one woman came to us with enough witnesses, and evidence to test
out these new “sex trafficking” laws. She was going to be the
first person ever to prosecute a “sex trafficker” within a
“legal brothel”. Only before we could get the case pulled
together, it was sold to Dennis, all the witnesses threatened and
scattered, as well as this woman's life threatened. To find her to
make these threats - they spared no expense. Hiring another
“catfish” pretending to be a photojournalist from Finland
supposedly working on a magazine project. To make it all look
“real” they even flew a woman over from Finland – fake
portfolio of her work and all.

When
we exposed this for the fraud it was and alerted those who she'd been
lying to what her real mission was – that's when the threats
against us escalated to being more serious. We'd had some hand by
this point in time for exposing Samoly Mam as a “fraud”, as well
as Stella Marr, Chong Kim, William Hilliar, and now also this
“photojournalist”. So finding there have been “fake”
victims, fake “rescuers” and even fake “photojournalists”,
who knew there would soon come “fake” reality series and even
fake “sex workers advocates” as again Maxine Doogan and Domina
Elle are turning out to be. Yes
we have attacked these “fakes” and done so with good reason –
because they've been covering up what the REAL traffickers in this
country are doing, how they're doing it, who is doing it, and also
diverting resources to fight them.

We
had exposed “Cat House” as being staged and called out produced
by Dennis Hof. Our efforts resulted in the show being taken off the
air briefly, and then “relabeled” along with the producer finally
admitting actors had been paid to stage this so called “reality”
show about the sex industry. This show had been produced as a
marketing and recruiting tool bearing no resemblance to the reality
others coming out of there were reporting to us. Now why did we
raise such a stink about it using actors and scripts? Because again
people were walking around talking about the “legal brothels”
based upon thinking this show was “reality”. Therefore,
it was important for us to reveal it had been in fact staged and
scripted with paid actors so people knew it wasn't what “really”
goes on within those places.

But
the others to follow which were faked were all done by Relativity
Media. This included “Gigolo's” about male prostitution and “G
Sting Diva's” about strippers. Relativity Media I also need to add
films “Jail”, “OC Jail”, “Intervention” and “Catfish”
- giving them a lot of access within these operations. Before
starting filming on “8 Minutes” Relativity Media received a lot
of money from another film company who was owned by the Chinese
government. This was before Liang Yaohui, and at least 50 other men
who were part of the Chinese government, were arrested for
trafficking and corruption who were also connected to the same film
company who invested over $12 million dollars in Relativity Media.

One
of the founders of Relativity Media also bought PBS shortly before
producing “A Path Appears”. Another show many feel was “staged”
because of the connection to Nicholas Kristof – the man who was
partially behind Samoly Mam talking her into her fake campaign and
that whole sham which defrauded people out of millions of dollars as
well as created a very false impression of what “real” American
sex trafficking victims are like once rescued. The stories she told
like even her daughter was “beheaded” being a lie were completely
outrageous as well as misleading. I'd be “bright and cheery” to
people too if I was out shaking hands asking for millions of dollars.
All con artists do. Most true survivors however I've found, not
even myself, can physically keep up the campaign trail she embarked
upon – a sign that gave her away. But realize while she was
sucking up the press with her false stories about sex trafficking –
real stories from real victims about real trafficking, especially in
America, in need of American support, was being diverted. No
differently than when I went to MTV for help about Snoop Dogg's “RV
pimp revival tour” in 2003 he confessed to in Rolling Stone. I did
that because they were in the middle of producing a documentary about
our work along with a PSA series. But the minute I talked about
working on this case – suddenly the producer I was talking to was
fired. No one there left knew who I was. The project was clearly
canceled about our work. Then all of the money and talk they'd at
first been putting into dealing with American sex trafficking
happening right then and there – completely transformed into a
launch of MTV Exit in Swenden. Which is great for Swedon – but
what about the fact of the victims right here who had whole states
refusing to help them because no one wanted “to be another OJ case”
on the news? THIS
is the danger when using other countries as a way of “smoke
screening” what's going on right here right now.

With
respect to “8 Minutes”, we had started getting strange calls
about Kevin Brown, Greg Reese, and the show long before it aired. In
fact, they had called us up asking to send women to a motel so they
could “rescue” them in California before moving the shoot to
Texas. They had said they “couldn't get anyone to send a woman to
a motel” in Los Angeles. We explained to them this was “because
sex traffickers won't send a woman to your hotel room in that
manner”. Then I asked them if they didn't know this then what kind
of “rescue” were they running? I asked to see this operation for
myself and never heard from them again as a matter of fact. This was
clearly one of the reasons why they changed the shoot to Houston.

So
we had caught the first episode when it aired very curious about what
was going on in connection with it. I don't know if you watched the
show, but it immediately made no sense to me based on what I'm seeing
coming into our hotline with respect to not only Backpage, but also
sex trafficking itself. Since we have a chapter in Houston also, and
were “friends” at one point with the Houston SWOP chapter, it
really didn't make sense what we saw on that first show. Not when
it was saying it was a “trafficking rescue”.

I
say that based on the whole premise. What I saw on that first
episode was them calling up ads on Backpage, that women were just
showing up at their room, women who were all Hispanic, where every
two minutes the narrator, or the host, was repeating the term
“victim” without even knowing this woman's story first. (I
mention this because if you watch Derrin Brown's videos on Youtube
about how you can convince an innocent man he's guilty – these are
the same techniques I was seeing being employed in “8 Minutes”
right on down the line. Brainwashing the audience pure and simple.
Since I was certified by the FBI as an expert witness in how
brainwashing is done – then I know what I'm talking about. Which
had me wondering why they would be wanting to “brainwash” the
audience “sex trafficking victims” were found on Backpage” to
be perfectly honest. I found it even stranger they named Backpage.
I mean who says “oh you can find drugs on this corner” on the
news like it's an ad you're running if you're trying to stop it.)

Then
they were offered a chance to “just leave” with them within an
eight minute time frame. I'm sorry but rescuing a REAL victim of sex
trafficking takes a lot more time to plan and execute than eight
minutes. Especially since most of them require their whole family
relocated to safety before you can extract the direct victim because
the first place the traffickers are going to show up when they go
missing is their relative's house. Something which wasn't even being
addressed in the episode I saw. Now you might be able to get a
“prostitute” to agree to run off to get help with a strange man
in 8 Minutes – but NOT a “real” sex trafficking victim”. In
that case, a whole series of events would go into operation when they
didn't return back to the appointed place at the appointed time, or
when their GPS device was cut off or moved.

So
I scratched my head and then turned the channel because it didn't
really effect me I thought. Until my phone started ringing right
after the show with people wanting my help to start staging “hotel
stings”. Okay now I'm mad. I'm now answering my phone that I pay
for which I receive no salary and for which I can't just go out and
hire someone to help me with it either - for which is now ringing off
the hook with fools who saw this show and now are thinking you
execute a “sex trafficking rescue” with something like this
nonsense. I'm now spending hours out of my day talking fools down
off this ridiculous “hotel sting” set up people are seeing on
this show and wanting my help with even. Something I wasn't even
prepared for beforehand.

This
is when I started trying to reach the producers directly because now
the show is directly affecting me. To my surprise, they weren't
answering my calls. Which didn't make sense to me. If you're going
to be helping alcoholics – wouldn't you take a call from Bill
Wilson or Alcoholics Anonymous? This further alerted me there was
something very very fishy here and they were not running the
operation they were claiming.

Then
came the woman who told me she had been filmed for this show. She's
been called “Kamylla” online. This woman told me she had been
paid to speak scripted lines, and she was engaged in a play where
Backpage was the named source of where she came from. She even told
me her husband was paid to pretend to be her pimp. Not they
“breached their promise” to “rescue” her but
to not show her face.

What
was upsetting her was she had been told their faces would be blurred
out when the show aired, but that the faces she was seeing on the
shows airing weren't blurred. This was scaring her people would
think what they acted out on camera was “real”. Since she said
she had three kids, and was not a legal citizen because she was from
Brazil, she was scared this “branding” would get her deported,
possibly cost her custody of her children. Maybe even get her
husband arrested.

She
asked for my help in stopping the episode with their faces from
airing. I agreed to help her with this, and typed up a letter
notifying the producer's, and A&E, I was going to be filing a
request for an emergency temporary injunction against the show from
airing because of her concerns about her face showing and the danger
this could pose for her children. I further had found two things
quite disturbing about the show – the fact only Hispanic women had
been portrayed as “victims” for one. The other was their
portrayal of what a “sex trafficking” victim is including they
can be just ordered up into a hotel room like a pizza off Backpage.
What I'd found especially offensive was that I had contacted their
show during the taping about situations going on in pockets such as
California, Nevada, Arizona, etc., which can now be openly discussed
such as what was going on with Joohon David Lee and Celeste Guap just
to name two public cases connected to the trafficking ring I've been
dealing with for some years now.

I
was seeing no mention at all in this so called “reality” show of
the fact a sex trafficking victim COULDN'T just up and leave with
them in “8 Minutes” because of this type of corruption. If
anything, this show was making that sort of thing seem to not even
exist. Much as how magicians will distract you with their left hand
so you don't see what they're doing with their right. So when I'm
seeing something labeled as a “reality show” making it appear
that when you start calling up ads on Backpage in the adult section,
you're going to get nothing but Hispanic women reporting to the
camera they're “only doing this because they have kids to feed”
and agreeing that quickly, and that simply, to walk off with these
people into a recovery program, well I found it to be absolutely
outrageously misleading about both illegal prostitution, as well as
someone who is being pimped and some who is being trafficked in this
country.

Look,
things labeled as “real” when aired which aren't can be very
damaging. I point you to the ACORN video about Obama, as well as the
Planned Parenthood video tape – both staged as “reality” when
in fact they were “staged”. One making Obama's people appear to
be supporting sex trafficking, while the other was making Planned
Parenthood appear to be forcing abortions upon women just so they can
sell body parts. Now, was exposing these tapes for the frauds they
were “attacking people” or “defending” the innocent, while
also wanting to try and ensure that those truly guilty of such things
are then exposed.

Things
like this are important to me because I have yet to see a trafficking
operation for one use a Planned Parenthood. Why would they when they
leave records and cost money or health insurance? Neither of which
sex traffickers are going to want to use in a situation with a
victim. The sex traffickers I've known PREFER their victims pregnant
and to give birth because it not only brings in more money from the
“fetish” johns who like pregnant women – but also gives them an
18 year “leash” on their victims so they can't run from them
without giving up their address or they can call in a “kidnapping”
report. Meaning in reality the only way many victims who have
children by their traffickers is to run to a country like Canada who
doesn't extradite over things like child custody or visitation
orders. Issues by the way I've yet to see discussed with Congress yet
when talking about how to break away victims from their traffickers
such as child custody.

Now,
in reality, the traffickers I'm aware of don't just send out a woman
to a hotel room in the manner portrayed in this show. While a
prostitute might just up and come out to some room in that manner, a
person who is being trafficked or even pimped seriously will not.
They're not sending out anyone to any room unless they've screened
this person for their real name, where they work, where they're from,
and have some idea who this person is and where they work or what
company they own. They're going to want to see an airplane ticket, a
drivers' license, a credit card, and some other type of information
so that if their victim goes missing – they know where to go
looking to get her back. Even then, most of the time you have to
have someone the traffickers trust “vouch” for you before they'll
send anyone out to your place – especially if you're calling from a
hotel. In those cases, you probably wouldn't even get an appointment
unless you also showed them an airplane ticket or car rental which
matched your drivers license, and even then you'd have to get someone
to “vouch” for you who they do business with regularly.

So
I found the whole thing very misleading. Especially since the
“johns” I've been speaking to for a while now have been reporting
the traffickers have been using this information they get on them to
do things like hack into their bank accounts, blackmail them, even
steal real estate equity right out from under them. Many report
they're being drugged even and robbed. Then when they threaten to
“go to the cops” they find they're being threatened by the cops
to “back off” the whole matter “or else” their wife and boss
might find out. You witnessed exactly this scenario when Lamar Odom
overdosed in Nevada. He “ate” that $75,000 cash which was in his
pocket and got the hell out of Nevada before the cops changed their
minds about charging him for the drug possession for which there's no
proof he put any of those in his system himself.

Something
if you were showing REAL sex trafficking – then you'd be showing
them putting the clients through these hoops traffickers do. Not
showing them the procedure for what appears to be that of an
“independent prostitute” who is simply on Backpage because they
have free ads trying to get up money to buy food for her kids because
she's out of work and so desperate this was all she could think of to
do. But yet that's what I'm feeling I'm seeing portrayed and if
you're going to be scripting and staging this – then why would you
script and stage what is “independent sex work” and label it “sex
trafficking”? Why mislead the public about the type of ads found
on Backpage?

But
I still didn't get involved in this whole show until again “Kamylla”
asked for my help in stopping the episode with her, and her husband,
from airing which was supposed to be that next week. She further
said she was being evicted in two days and needed help with this
because she was too broke to pay her rent. I agreed to help her on
both accounts. The next morning I served upon A&E and Relativity
Media the notice I was going to file for a “temporary emergency
injunction” to stop the show from airing based on the safety of her
children being endangered if the show aired showing their parents
faces labeled as “prostitute” and “pimp” unblurred.
Literally within four hours of my serving everyone with this notice,
the website connected to the show was taken down completely. Within
eight hours, news was going out the show had been “canceled”. I
also need to add this woman who told me the day before she “couldn't
afford an attorney” suddenly had THREE attorney's calling me every
hour on the hour the next day trying to stop me from doing anything
about her situation telling me “they were going to help her” yet
not a one of them was HER attorney hired by her for her needs. These
were attorney's acting on behalf of the producers & the show.

I
further informed them I would be suing for what's called a
“defamacast”. Not only was this show making it appear Hispanic
women resorted to prostitution the minute they were having economic
problems, nor could they take care of their children legally, but it
was also slamming Backpage as the vehicle sex traffickers were using.
I'm sorry but that's not where I'm seeing the hard core sex
trafficking in this country being advertised. ANY hard core sex
trafficker is WELL AWARE the police, the press, the groups such as
the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and THORN,
are monitoring the ads on this site, as well as records of their
phone and bank records are being turned over to the cops upon receipt
of a warrant.

Any
organized hard core real sex trafficker is therefore NOT going to use
Backpage for exactly those reasons. I'm not alone in this knowledge
either. Not when men like Chris Hanson are walking away from NBC and
seeking crowdfunding so they can film a TRUE “reality” series
showing where hard core sex traffickers are advertising, and how they
operate, as he did when he left NBC. NBC who is another one who is
filming these completely faked staged so called “reality” shows
about sex trafficking also supposedly coming out of Backpage too I
need to add where I've already filed complaints about them with the
FCC. 'm still considering legal action against NBC for the way
they've even faked shows about our group!

Let
me tell you what I'm seeing from my end of the “elephant”. So we
can speak a common language, I want to refer you back to the days of
Prohibition. These were the days when organized crime, connected to
such men as Al Capone, were so well “connected” as to be deemed
“untouchable”. Not only had they connections with the police,
the press, even the church, and politicians - but further they had
the fact most people didn't even believe there even WAS a “cosa
nostra”, or organized crime ring operating within the USA going for
them. So when these guys wanted to shut down an “independent”
bootlegger – it was easy. They turned him over to the cops, and
everyone got to take a bunch of press for “shutting down a
bootlegger”. The politicians got some good press, the local cops
picked up some money, the court's got their fines – and organized
crime got their point across not to make illegal booze unless you
were a part of THEIR operation. If you wanted to make gin in your
bathtub – then you'd be the one busted – not them.

Now
when a bathtub gin bootlegger was arrested did this mean they weren't
“arresting a bootlegger”? Sure they were. But that arrest was
actually SERVING the “organized crime” ring in this country we
now refer to as “the mob”. I say that because “the mob”
wasn't even officially recognized until the 1960's when Joe Valachi
stepped up with his confession about being a part of this “mob”.
We didn't even have the “racketeering” laws back then which were
written to address the fact there was a “difference” between a
guy making moonshine in the Appalachian mountains to feed his kids
vs. someone like Al Capone whose money went to fuel a very large,
organized criminal operation. These guys were so “untouchable” a
special team had to be organized popularized in the series “The
Untouchable's”.

From
our perspective on this end of the elephant – that's what I'm
seeing is playing out here. A repeat of history itself. Especially
considering this country didn't even recognize domestic sex
trafficking as “real” until the Trafficking Act of 2000 was
passed. So no I don't think we're at a point yet where as a country
we understand the difference between an “independent sex worker”
vs. a “trafficking victim” in terms like we now understand with
respect to alcohol and Prohibition.

I'm
sure you're aware the Mann Act of 1910 was what we had on the books
before. That despite this talking about sending Chinese women who
were being brought over here to be forced into prostitution back to
China as “victims”, not “criminals”, using taxpayer money –
only two people were ever arrested under the Mann Act before the
year 2000. This was two black men who married white women – Chuck
Berry and Joe Johnson. The reason for this is because most
politicians, heck most people in this country, weren't being taught
what sex trafficking even looked like over the years in between 1910
and 2000. In fact, I remember the 1968 popular film “Thoroughly
Modern Millie” starring Julie Andrews actually making a musical
comedy out of the very “idea” of Chinese sex trafficking of
American women into opium dens. This laughter wouldn't have been so
loud had it not been most people truly believed that sort of thing
“didn't exist any longer” having left us with the days of the
Barbary Coast and sailors being hijacked onto ships.

If
you think about it, the most popular people we've had talking in
major media since the year 2000 gave this issue federal recognition
have all been complete and utter FRAUDS. Go down the list – Samoly
Mam, Chong Kim, Stella Marr, William Hillar, etc. Out of those who
are not frauds telling stories – how many are AMERICAN'S talking
about AMERICAN sex trafficking?

Then out of those who are
AMERICAN, how many are speaking about ORGANIZED SEX TRAFFICKING
within the modern USA framework? Now you yourself only recently
brought in Jessa Willow-Crisp to speak to the Colorado legislature
about how the police were involved in trafficking her from Canada
into this country. I found her story to ring true with the other
stories I'm hearing again not about illegal prostitution, not about
someone who is being pimped, but as to someone who is being
TRAFFICKED. Yet
I did NOT hear even Jessa speaking about her traffickers using
Backpage as their method of operating.

For
another, I failed to hear her, or anyone connected to her, addressing
the fact the current system we have in this country is STILL not set
up to address just this very fact. Joohon David Lee, after me
spending years trying to get anyone I could to listen to me to do
something about not just that man, but the whole trafficking
operation he was only but a part of like a spoke on a wheel, was only
charged with bribery after I finally got someone at the Office of
Professional Responsibility to open up an investigation into him.

The
reason? Because we don't have laws on the books to arrest him for
what he actually did to – which included not only placing a
completely fake case on an innocent family in Las Vegas, but further
he was physically going to pick up victims in China, and then Korea
(once I tipped off LAX and the Dept. of Transportation about his
activity in China), and not only flying them over here on taxpayer
money, but he was also physically walking the victims past LAX
security. Now I ask you – where is a person who has just been
flown to the states, and walked past LAX security using a Homeland
Security badge and ICE credentials, who you know is also on the
trafficking task force, to call for help in this country?

Your
hotline? Knowing you're going to do what now exactly? In the mind
of this victim all you're going to do is refer them right back to him
so frankly they aren't going to call you. I'm willing to bet you
even a cash bet not one victim of Joohon's did call your hotline in
fact to prove my point. I know they called mine. They called mine
because we promote you can call us for any reason and that we're not
connected to such offices in any way – that all calls to us are
completely “confidential”.

I'd
also like to point out that training prepared by your office for LAX
security did not anywhere in the training materials I was able to get
ahold and review mention ANYTHING, not one word, about what airport
personnel is supposed to do when they suspect someone in his offices
is doing what he did – walking victims right past them into this
country. To further prove my point, Celeste Guap has stated she was
warned when trafficking “raids” were going to be executed in
order that she stay away from them. Now, if they were doing this to
keep her away from raids, then why would she advertise on Backpage
knowing it's being watched by as many as it is for sex trafficking?
I've seen how she advertised her services – and it was NOT on
Backpage. If anything, it was advertised on Facebook and Google.
Two sites I've seen with respect to sex trafficking, as well as other
sites like Youtube, Grinder, Snapchat, etc., But yet I've not seen
one word about them in all this Backpage witch hunting. Nope, if you
look at all of the arrests in the last couple of years such as
Backpage, The Erotic Review, Redpage, Rentboy – what they share in
common is that INDEPENDENT sex workers use them NOT sex traffickers.
I can can point to the site which was the focus of the Seattle
arrests this year – this website, nor their victims, were
advertised on Backpage.

But I will tell you this – it's
also spreading fast now “on the streets” (thanks to these
“influencers” who have been recruited by the real sex industry in
this country, who by the way now include Google thanks to Oculus,and
Facebook, thanks to their app who directs “johns” to their
closest massage parlor, strip clubs, or even escort services, who
some might even say view Backpage as a “competitor” to
advertising sexual services for hire), when someone does call our
hotline for help we going to now be ignored completely if we try and
reach out to a group like yours for help – because you have ignored
us when we have tried to talk to you about such situations to date.

Why?
I don't know other than I get told to “have the victim call
themselves” and then I'm cut off. Well again if that was the case
then they'd be calling you then instead of me wouldn't they? Thus
leaving both our calls essentially unanswered when I've tried to come
talk to your group about their situations. By your group refusing to
hear from this back end of the elephant that the tail I'm looking at
looks a lot different than the ears you've got a hold of – then I
don't think you've got as clear of a picture of what this American
elephant really looks like anymore than I have a clear idea what
things look like outside the reach of what our program can offer by
and of itself.

So
I'm just reaching out to you right now to let you know what I believe
we're witnessing here with the arrest of Carl Ferrer is not what it
appears to be on the surface. I know your intent, as well as the
intent of those others connected to this whole thing, is to not just
to shut down real sex traffickers, but to also help the victims
escape this type of operation, as well as to try and just shut down
the whole process itself.

However,
I can't be more clear that this subject needs to be viewed much again
like that of alcohol. Not everyone who drinks alcohol is an
alcoholic. Nor is everyone who makes alcohol a “bootlegger”.
Keep in mind that to reach an alcoholic, even they are in denial
about just that fact sometimes for years into even going to AA
meetings they “have a problem”. Very few alcoholics will readily
even admit to themselves, or other people, they are in fact one
without sometimes hitting a very hard “bottom”. The same sadly
applies to “sex trafficking victims” in many cases. Very few who
are “victims” will often readily admit they are. Not only have I
seen many take sometimes years into recovery to come to grips with
that fact, but I myself even didn't even begin to grasp how much of
what I went through was forced upon me until I also had years clean
and in recovery to be distanced enough from it to truly see things
for what they were.

Also,
to the guy working at the local “drunk tank” rounding up drunks
on a Friday night, it may appear to them everyone who drinks is an
alcoholic. The same for someone who was working at a “wet farm”
where many went to die from “wet brain”. You may not realize
this, but until Alcoholics Anonymous was formed, the diagnosed
alcoholic was often treated as if they were mentally ill – some
even had lobotomies forced upon them by those who thought they “must
be insane” because of the way they wouldn't “stop drinking”.
Meaning a proper “diagnosis” of a situation is important to find
the proper solution.

The
last count I saw of your hotline was you'd answered about 100,000
calls. I want you to know we did a calculation based off phone bills
and we counted our hotline has answered over 500,000 calls as of
2013. I think you should also know I've been the one person
answering about 98 % of all of those calls myself over the years
since 1987 when we launched the hotline and 12 step program.

So
I've developed a pretty good view not only of the sex industry
worldwide, and others around the world since our hotline is
international, but also over time these 30 or so years. I should add
with a community of people who aren't calling your hotline nor really
having anything to do with your organization. I don't know of ANYONE
who has been around this field longer, or with more people, nor a
wider variety of those involved in this subject, than myself with
respect to adults. The only other person I believe with more time
than me has more experience with juveniles than myself – Lois Lee
from Children of the Night. Meaning I think my opinion on things
involving this issue are valuable. You might know a lot of
“survivors” but I doubt you know anyone other than myself who has
a broader range of experiences in this field than myself being I've
seen it from the very beginning over a span of three decades now from
all different types of views.

The
show “8 Minutes” wasn't the only time I saw someone creating
“fake” media to make it appear “sex trafficking” was
happening mostly on Craigslist or Backpage. What I found even more
interesting was how MUCH media went into covering that fact up. Why
CNN did a whole hour called “The Truth about 8 Minutes” which was
just as faked as the show about why it was supposedly canceled.
Showing a lot of people went to a lot of trouble to try and cover up
the show was “faked”. Now why do that? I mean your group I'm
sure has even wondered why they would use your hotline against your
permission – so haven't you wondered about this yourself what was
going on with respect to that show?

“8
Minutes” was not the first time I've seen false ads being placed on
Backpage to make it also appear sex trafficking is happening on the
site. I find it even more interesting my IP address is blocked from
placing any ad for SWA on Backpage or Craigslist. I've tested both
and the ads are not “flagged” but actually programmed to not run
ads from our IP address. So I'm not doubting the truth of your
statement when you say you've “had 2000 calls reporting sex
trafficking activity on Backpage”. I am however questioning
whether or not those calls might have been faked also. I mean if
someone went to all the trouble and expense to fake a whole series to
make it appear this way, to put an hour show on CNN about it further
covering up this was faked, and then send in paid “influencers”
to try and shut me from talking about it – then it's not beyond
reasonable to think they might have used these “influencers” to
stage fake calls to you.

I
want to again point out Joohon David Lee had put a whole innocent
family under arrest to deflect from what he was really doing.
So I'll put it this way – what proof have you looked at which
would show you the accusations against Backpage are being staged in
the same manner as what Joohon did to that family? Because again this
is not being done just to deflect attention – but to further try
and pressure the “independents” into going to work for them by
making it impossible to operate otherwise. Just identical to how I
had it done to me back in the day to try and force me to work under
them then (not the same people obviously but the same system), and to
also shut down avenues of escape as was also done to me back in 1984
when they came after me to shut down the safe house. Which is why I
brought up to you about my own past experience personally – because
I've seen this exact thing before in my own life, as well as I've
been watching it unfold over three decades. I also see the direct
connections between the patterns I'm seeing now and what was going on
“back in the day” with respect to alcohol, Prohibition,
bootleggers, and the difference between the alcohol industry vs. the
criminals using bootlegging to build an empire.

For
that matter, I'm even watching what appears to be a repeat of when
Pablo Escobar was in the Mexican Congress, and the Columbian Cartel
had reached such a point of power in the 1990's a “faceless justice
committee” had to be put together because one couldn't even report
drug trafficking back then without being automatically whacked no
different than when Pablo's opponents were dealt with much the same.
I don't know if you know this – but many are saying Celeste Guap's
mother was involved in her trafficking. That she was a 911 operator
who was placed in that job to further execute the operations of the
sex trafficking ring which has publicly identified at least 30
officers to date involved. Again I ask you – HOW can a victim of
such a operation knowing this system is in place call anyone in
authority for help? All
the more reason again why we get calls you don't over there at
Polaris.

The
sex industry IS an industry – no different than any other such as
alcohol, tobacco, gambling, farming, mining, or any other “industry”
where labor is short and exceeds demand. When you combine it with a
“black market' by making something illegal as prostitution is, some
pornography is, and slap “shame” on it as much of the sex
industry is also tied to – and we are witnessing something no
different than the days of Al Capone or even Iran Contra when cocaine
was flooded into this country by our own government's hand. A
government which uses sex to make it's deals just as much as it does
cash. If that wasn't true, the House Ethics Committee would not have
ruled prostitutes don't have to be accounted for when noting
“politician donations”.

So
I don't know if you realize you're supporting what essentially is Al
Capone trying to stamp out someone who isn't part of “their”
operation, trying to force “independents” to “come on board”
- but from where I'm sitting at the back end of this elephant –
that's what I'm seeing is going on. Now if you have a different
perspective, I'd love to hear about it.

In
fact, I'd love to be able to have your people hear from our whole
side of the fence which when I checked my database last month
numbered at 190,000 active members worldwide. But again I can't get
you talking to “them” if you aren't willing to talk to “me”.
People who are trying to maintain their “anonymity” because some
people tend to look down on us as “beneath” being treated with
respect as any other human being are kind of funny that way. You
know what that's like don't you? When you walk into a room back at
high school and you've got the “soshie” kids acting like you
don't even warrant recognition you entered the room? That kind of
treatment doesn't really encourage them to really want to step out
outside of our group to talk about their experiences.

I'm
not going to apologize for the length of this letter. Had we been
afforded an open line of communication previous to this, I wouldn't
feel the need to try and sum up 30 years in a letter to you today.
But I've been getting quite a few phone calls lately from members
saying “don't they realize that . . . “ to where I realized “No
I don't know if they realize that . . . . “. so this is why I'm
attempting to try and convey our view on this elephant to you and
hope maybe we can open up a dialogue. Because
if I were you, I wouldn't want to think I was knowingly, or
unknowingly, supporting organized sex traffickers in any manner.

Sunday, October 9, 2016

I found myself in almost the same identical shoes as your daughter back in the 1980's. I had "bought" my freedom from a family of pimps related to Richard Pryor's family of generational pimps and prostitutes only to have word spread on the streets I was now an "independent". Suddenly, I found myself being approached by LAPD who owned an escort service which back then was called "Talk of the Town".

They supplied escorts to the Hollywood elite, to the best five star hotels, and assured their clients we not only wouldn't rob them, but also wouldn't blackmail them. By assuring them they were being "controlled" by cops, the clients had an assurance if we stepped "out of line" then we were the ones who would be arrested. It was in the news yes if you were a black man in Beverly Hills you'd be arrested - but what wasn't in the news was this was them making sure the white cops of LAPD were the ones pimping us and not the African American street pimps. You wanted to get a pimp busted? Easy. Call 911

But what do you do when you've got a Beverly Hills cop TELLING you that you're going to work for them "or else"? When I refused the first time, they busted me just for shits and giggles. Sure they made the case disappear as the arrest was only done to show me their power. They of course insisted of free sex during the exchange from me as well. I continued to refuse to work with these men, and soon found myself being approached by another madam, Alex Adams.

She was called the "Beverly Hills Madam" and unknown to me at the time she was an informant for the police, the FBI, the CIA, etc. There was no google back then, so between Alex, myself and Cheri Woods, we basically were the source to go to for a quality escort experience. As these cops continued to apply pressure on me, I started getting calls from Cheri. She was being asked to find "pretty girls" to come audition for the "Dating Game" produced by Chuck Barris.

We were promised expensive vacations. I soon learned the audition tapes were being sent overseas to oil men, drug dealers, and others our government was making deals with during Iran Contra. As I learned he was using his status as a producer as a front for what we now call "sex trafficking" (which we used to call "white slavery" back in the day as we had no word really for it), the CIA started putting pressure on me to supply them with women who would be loaded onto a plane never to be seen again. I refused of course.

But more and more women were disappearing and their disappearance blamed on the many serial killers operating in LA back then. Where do you go when you can't call the police and you're not even safe in jail? Well I took an old warehouse and turned it into what I now know was the first safe house for adults in the USA.

After we managed to get some women to safety, these traffickers weren't too happy about me not cooperating as well as knowing I knew everything about their operation. So they "set me up". They had a woman come to me asking for help to get away from her pimp and then accused me of "pimping" her. You can read about it at www.hightechmadam.com Of course it was not true and they didn't have a shred of evidence. Didn't stop them however from saying either I cooperated with them or they'd arrest my mother.

Since my mother wasn't doing anything wrong I couldn't understand for what - but they did in fact arrest her. They charged her with pimping me based on a photo of me handing her a $20 bill in exchange for a bucket of KFC chicken. You see under the law if you receive any money from any "known" prostitute, then you're guilty of felony pimping. So technically they could make the case against my mom stand. We decided to fight it because we felt a jury would think it was outrageous - so they then threatened to arrest my then 70 year old grandmother.

I didn't think she'd survive being arrested and I wasn't going to "snitch" either because I knew good and well our government wouldn't let me live if I talked about what I knew about what has now been called Iran Contra, so we took a plea bargain. They made my bail $50,000 to keep me from speaking to the media who painted me as a madam by calling me the "High Tech Madam" because of all of the security I had on the warehouse . I wasn't given a chance to explain it was for a safe house because the press was meaning to paint me and my mother as "criminals".

I later learned the pattern - when one of us doesn't cooperate they arrest us, plaster us all over the media, take all our money, threaten off our lawyers, and then when they got us good and where they want us - we're more "compliant". Only I didn't want to be controlled by our government who was making women "disappear". I wanted to blow the whistle so I took the first film and book offer to come my way. I later learned this was a set-up also. What I wouldn't tell the police I was soon spilling into a tape recorder thinking I was working on a script about "the truth". Since this whole thing happened, I've been close to many of us who have been through these same high profile cases. They follow very specific patterns which means I won't be surprised if someone else in her family soon finds themselves being arrested and/or deported or harassed in some manner.

Seven cops have now been charged, which means seven attorney's, and others, who aren't going to want her to testify. I found myself almost murdered quite a few times for the first year this was happening. To protect myself my attorney advised me to go move in with my grandmother who was always home so I'd always have a witness.

He warned me "not to let myself be lured outside". Which men did try and do. When Jeane Palfrey was in the same situation, she went to her mother's to protect her. I also warned her "not to leave the house" and they found her body in the back yard shed. They suppressed the fact her lower legs were bruised like someone had held her down to be hung in the manner in which she was found. They had also sent a writer to work on her book I had warned her against also. She went ahead anyway and sure enough the writer started saying "he knew it was suicide" and twisting facts of the case to make it appear she'd killed herself.

Of course she was being threatened and feared for her life so of course she was going to write out instructions and a Will in case of her death. That however wasn't a "suicide plan" as the author then presented to the press -all while I was being silenced who had spoken to her for two years daily before her death. You can't trust the major media - especially ABC or NBC. I was warned about ABC when the mother of Johnny Gosch came to me saying they'd asked her for evidence to do a documentary on her son's disappearance. Then it "disappeared".

I was prepared when they asked Jeane Palfrey for some of her "Black Book". They had Dan Rather then get up and LIE and claim "there were no names of significance" in the book. Because we knew not to trust them however, another copy was given to the Smoking Gun who called them out and revealed the names of David Vitter and Randall Tobias. Two names who were involved in trafficking Jeane and her escorts - not as "johns". They send in "influencers" to do things like get you to set up a fund raiser. Then they gather up names, bank information, and other records which you can't deny them of her "supporters".

They are using this to get you to open up to them about her family, friends, anywhere and anyone who might hide or help her if she decides to "lay low" or "disappear". I've been dealing with the same cops as Celeste since 2006 and I assure you there's a string of deaths connected with these traffickers. I've already seen the deaths of more than one cop who was on a trafficking task force who was getting ready to "come clean" who was also suddenly found hung (their favorite method it seems is to hang someone).

I had tried desperately to reach out our members to help Celeste when this all went down and Nancy O'Malley did nothing but insist SHE "was handling" this. First of all, there was a perfectly good treatment program that specializes in cases like Celeste's right in Malibu we could have got her into for free. They've helped many a woman like her to get clean and straight. They also don't have guards who then prosecute for assault. It's very common for someone like her to be aggressive in early detox and the programs don't charge their clients because then they become legally liable for damages. It was their program's fault to have controlled their employee's and also take care of their clients' - so its very very rare to see a client of a detox charged criminally.

They sent her to Florida because there are cops connected to this same trafficking operation there who have a very dominant influence down there. Which is why there's not a doubt in my mind her arrest was manufactured to silence her and possibly even harm her in custody. I know while I was being held on $50,000 bail it was partially to silence me to the media and also because they wanted to kill me while in custody. My attorney had informants who told him they'd been offered money to whack me while in custody. He was able to use that information to get me out of there so it worked out. He had warned me not to post the bail in cash because whoever posted my bail in cash would then be arrested as my pimp.

Again, sure you can fight it. But then you've now lost everything you owe that's been impounded, you have to then deal with attorney's, jail, court, etc. It's so common to charge the parents - you can see they even charged Heidi Fleiss' parents. The whole point is to make sure you don't charge them with what you can charge them with. They'll claim your attorney is using "money laundered from criminal activity" and try and arrest your attorney. All of these things are why we do what we do Monica. DO NOT FALL FOR THE LIES OF SWOP. I have proof everything they've claimed to have done is a complete fabrication. I've spoken to the REAL "Kamylla" and it's a whole other story than they claim in the media is what they did for this "Kamylla".

Everything at www.sexworkersanonymous.org by the way is a lie. The site was set up because I refused to be a paid informant. So now when anyone is thinking of contacting us - they go to check out that site. That site then captures their IP address. It's a very cleverly designed way to get a "mirror" of my site's traffic. These people have been doing this kind of thing for DECADES and they have a "system".

Which is why we use "pro bono" attorney's so they can't be disbarred or arrested - which is the first thing they do when you get a good attorney behind you. They also try and get as much information on your family and supporters by coming in talking about "fund raisers". Whatever it is Celeste and you need - we can arrange to get you for free and "anonymously". All of your conversations with us are "confidential" by law. We are covered by the same confidentiality laws as any doctor, lawyer or priest. However, if you're talking to SWOP or a "reporter" you are not afforded that same law of confidentiality. It's important because without it they can come in with a warrant or a subpena and take the information. Including information provided to a reporter, screen writer, book author, etc., where they will then use that information as evidence for prosecution because statutes might not have expired. That's what they did to me and countless others found in these high profile type of cases. Including twisting things if need to be make her death appear as a suicide if they go that far. These people have gone to great lengths to make sure women like Celeste don't speak to the media. They completely "faked" a young girl going by the name of Wilthema Ortiz Pettigrew.

They did that because they didn't want someone who was a REAL juvenile within the system to speak out about the things Celeste's been experiencing. Which again has been going on since the 1980's. Yes there was the RAMPART lawsuit - but you'll notice that among the plaintiff's not one was a prostitute. That was because it was just easier to have us disappear or be murdered and attribute it to the Grim Reaper, the Green River Killer, or any other serial killer running around. I even had them pay an illegal alien to broadside my car to try and kill me to silence me. That's what he told the police when they arrested him after he'd run over my car with a girlfriend of mine inside who looked like me from a distance. You absolutely can not trust anyone with Relativity Media either. These people do everything they can to convince you not to speak to me, including that smear campaign at www.sexworkersanonymous.org, because they don't want you to know what their "tricks" are. Well we do and we know how to prepare you for any of them.

We want no money from you and aren't looking for press. All we are is here to help you and your family maneuver through what's going to be a very bumpy ride for a while by sharing with you our experience and resources in this area. We run the ONLY hotline in the country where someone who can't call the police can call us for help so again we know full well what's going on out there. We also can show you a long list of women who had signed movie and book contracts only to have the end result appear bearing no resemblance to reality. Then they've been unable to sue because they had either signed a confidentiality agreement, or they'd given away final cut creative control.

I'm more concerned over how I've seen them create people around someone who then later has "validated" this person was a suicide when they weren't - and then silenced our voices to the contrary this person was murdered to silence them. The cops down in Florida are very very dangerous. We have members all over the country, including Florida, who can go and visit her, check in on her, and make sure she's okay. The women from SWOP almost killed Heather from SC and for all we know she is dead now from reports we got. We got quite a few concerned phone calls about her and no one has heard from her in months. PLEASE trust me these women are dangerous.

I've received more then one email and call that Maxine Doogan and Domina Elle not only work as "informants" but also make evidence "disappear" and they've even "accidentally overdosed" women. Granted these are all rumors, but when more than one woman is coming to us telling us these women are "dangerous" and we know we've seen their actions are not in the best interests of these women - then i need to warn you to BE CAREFUL. We're here to help in any way we can. We also know there are other women who have been treated like Celeste who we've gotten out to safety, while there are others we can't because they're surrounded by too many police.

Keep in mind if not for Nancy O"Malley, Victory Outreach AND SWOP blocking us from Celeste - she'd be in a drug treatment program in Malibu right now doing just fine with no one knowing where she was. We also have "benefactors" who would have taken care of your financial needs while she was getting treatment because they know she's going through a hard transition. Iran Contra as you know was about Nicaragua - so there might even be a connection here which needs to be explored. You are welcome to call us anytime 24/7 at (702) 488-1127 and we'll help in any way we can. Please be careful and realize people are not what they appear right now with what you're going through.

We however have been around for 30 years and the ONLY complaints we've gotten are not from our members - but from those women at SWOP who have been fighting us for reasons too long to go into here. Their agenda is NOT helping us. If it was, Celeste would be in Malibu right now thanks to us. Just remember, they were just as much of her being in jail now as Nancy and the police were. I hope to talk to you soon. Jody Williams www.sexworkersanonymous.com www.hightechmadam.com

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I've been helping men and women leave the sex industry since 1987. Some were forced - some were not. Some thought they weren't and with time realized they were. Some thought they were and with time realized they weren't. Which is why I just focus on this - if you want help to leave any part of the sex industry for any reason - just get in touch. I run Sex Workers Anonymous, Trafficking & Prostitution Services, as well as the American Trafficking Institute. I produce www.blogtalkradio.com/stopsextrafficktalk, and the magazine "Sanity Today". I also help investigators and the authorities with sex trafficking cases, and families help their loved ones leave the streets. Currently I'm organizing www.boycottsnoop.com to demand an acknowledgment of the damage that was done to women during his 2003 tour and www.pimpalert.com to help caught pimps who are dangerous and on the streets. Our book on the history of this field "Anatomy of a Movement" is almost done.